2022 Highly Recommended Novels - "Contest Only" Entries and Ratings

All the following authors entered the 2022 HFC Book of the Year contest under the 'contest only' entry, without an editorial review, and have received a 'highly recommended' award of excellence from The Historical Fiction Company.

To view entries which include an editorial review, visit our 'Book Reviews' page HERE

To enter your novel in the 2023 HFC Book of the Year contest, please go HERE

"Discerning Grace" by Emma Lombard

"Confederacy of Fenians" by James T. Nealon

"The Curse of Beauty" by Laura Lee Meriwether

"The Prisoner of Paradise" by Rob Samborn

"A Cord of Three Strands" by Christy Distler

"Saints, Strangers, and Rosehip Tea" by Toni Kief

"The Saint Nicolas Society" by Ben Bongers

"McRae - Murder at the Opera" by Steve Bartholemew

"Dolley Madison and the War of 1812" by Libby Carty McNamee

"Sir John James Taylor" by Rick Pyves

"Walking in the Shadow" by Carmen Radtke

"Tapestry: My Mother's Life" by Malve von Hassell

"At the Corner of Hitler and Goering" by Joseph Kovler - screenplay, coming soon!

"The Contentious Business of Samuel Seabury" by Lexie Conygham

"Gallows Wake" by Helen Hollick

"The Intrepid Life of Abigail Adams" by Mary Rae Mauch

"Murder at Old St. Thomas's" by Lisa M. Lane

"Under the Dirt Sky" by Callie Trautmiller

"Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer" by Frances Schoonmaker

"Angel of Alta Langa" by Suzanne Hoffman

"I am Germany" by Michael Witt

"Hold Fast" by Marshall Highet and Bird Stasz Jones

All category winners for the 2022 HFC Book of the Year contest will be announced on December 31, 2022 - check back soon!